Wednesday, May 15, 2013

1Z0-560 - Oracle Unified Business Process Management 11g Certified Implementation Specialist


I recently gave the BPM 11g specialist exam , Here are few tips if you are planning to appear for this exam :

Cover all the topics mentioned at the Topics page of 1Z0-560 Oracle exam , here is the Link

There were 77 Questions needs to be completed in 120 minutes.

Questions were mainly from these broad areas :

1. BPM
   - BPM adoption in organization
   - Activities and process interactions
   - project/process data objects
   - BPM monitoring
   - Custom Dash boards/ process analytic / KPI /business indicators / process simulation
   - Role/ Approval groups / organization
   - Business rules
   - Human workflow

2. ADF
  - Basic Architecture
  - Task flows creation

3. BAM
 - BAM basics
 - Integration with BPM


If you have been working in SOA + BPM environment for couple of years (2-3) , this would  not be a difficult task.

Hope this helps.

Cheers !!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Error: Connecting to B2B from Jdeveloper


If you see below error while trying to connect to B2B server from Jdeveloper, you have encountered the cluster address issue:

" An error occurred while initializing the connection. Verify that the connection is valid "

Check:

1. Your server connection is valid and server is up and running

2. If you are working in clustered environment , set the cluster address in console.
Login to Console -> MySoaDomain ->Clusters->Cluster Address: [Specify value here]
like : http://localhost:7001  ie http://[host]:[admin server port]


3. Restart the servers.

Thats it , you are good to go.

Cheers !!

Identify cluster node for the soa instance


Sometimes we see issue with one of the instance/server running in cluster. To identify which instance/server the soa call went through , run below query in SOAINFRA database

SELECT cikey,status,component_name, create_cluster_node_id ,cmpst_id from
SOAINFRA.cube_instance

Cheers !!